Party tastic
Hi folks, Sorry for the lack of posting but I have been a little busy of late. The main thing that has been happening is the bank holiday weekend and the inevitable TREVINA PARTY......
Yes that's right I have once again delved into darkest Cornwall for a weekend of relaxation and sheer drunkenness and reappeared the other side. Photos and video will be posted in due course but for now a run down.
Friday eve:
Was spent cramped into the back of edmunds car, zapping down to Cornwall arriving at about 10 we were shortly followed by Weezy with two friends and proceeded to sit, chat and drink...Lots....till 3.30am at which point I decided enough was enough and crashed out.
Saturday:
Shopping, Watching Dawn of the dead (New one, good movie), Eating, Having a shooting comp with Marcus and Kevin, putting up the marquee, Dinner, Poker and Lots more drinking.
Sunday:
Lots of coffee, chilling, watching Land of the dead (New one, not so great), Chin wagging, shooting off an entire box of pellets with Edmund and of course the party........
This is where it tends to go a little hazy, good food and good company and a small lake in alcohol. I don't know how much we actually consumed between 12 of us but the empties filled kevins trailer.
I think it is something like this:

2 crates of Grolsch x24.
1 crate of Leffe x24.
1 crate of Peroni x24.
1 crate of Duvel x24.
1 crate of Bere de alaska x24.
approx 10 bottles of wine.
1 bottle of Tequila.
2 bottles of Champaign
1/2 bottle of Jack D
and some cocktails.

which is a little scary.

Well back home now and back to work, summers over folks but it was great to see everyone who made it and to those who didn't there is always next year.
- posted by J @ 21:43

 
A quick round up.
Kelvin is contemplating the ad breaks.
Rob is tuckered out.
Markiss is contemplating leaving the country.
Lemur has disappeared into the arms of her boy.
Ms. Mac is watching balloons.
A Welsh view is showing us a big bomb.
This is this is talking about Bob Dylan.
Edmund is teasing us with screen shots.
- posted by J @ 21:58

 
Artemis fowl


Erin colfer has done it again with the latest offering in this series. Artemis fowl: The lost colony, so far is fantastic living up to the other four books in the series.

Here is a little description:

Taken fron Amazon .co.uk.
"Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle. When the fairies realized they’d never win, they moved their civilization underground and hid. All the families agreed, except the demons.

The demons planned to lift themselves out of time until they were ready to wage war on the humans once more. But the spell went wrong, and they were catapulted into Limbo. Now the spell’s deterioration is accelerating and the demon materializations are erupting. Even the fairy scientists cannot predict the next one.

But someone can. Artemis Fowl, teenage criminal mastermind, has solved temporal equations that no human can. So when a confused and frightened demon pops up in a Sicilian theatre, Artemis is there to meet him. Unfortunately, a second mysterious party has also solved the equations and has managed to abduct the demon.

Once again, Artemis will pair up with his old comrade Captain Holly Short, to track down the missing demon, before the spell dissolves completely and the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth."

I am still about half way through reading it but it is so far a fantastic read and well worth the money, I will post a full review and recomendation as soon as i have finished it.
- posted by J @ 21:40

 

Behind the times.

I know im a bit behind the times on this one but.....

Firefly! what a series.

This definatly goes into my collection of great tv killed before it's time.

- posted by J @ 17:08

 
A story for all.

Hi all, I have been asked to and detail to edmunds accounts of our Coastering and kayaking weekend, so here goes.

After a Very early start and a drive to Newquay we all went and got kited out with our wet suits (An early start, exercise and looking like a tit, great eh!) and headed down to the beach. Where we were presented with our helmets and our Life preserves.

We then spent the next four hours scrambling, climbing and swearing around the rocks of
Newquay bay (from the little beachy bit top left of the pic to the little jutty bit bottom right was our route).

But what a laugh! Loads of high rocks to jump off, caves to explore and even a Cornish seal nosing around one of the inlets. I must just add at this point that Edmunds mum, Sue was the star of the morning after a slip on the muscle encrusted rocks sliced her fingers and almost put here out of the game.

But after a great laugh we clambered back up to the road way and headed back to the car park, trying to decide who was going on the afternoon "Extreme" Coasteering. Unfortunately for me having injured my knee a couple of days previously in a mild Brushcutter accident It wasn't much fun twatting it against a rock while mucking about in the water so I wasn't much up for it, but after a brief discussion it was decided that Sea Kayaking after lunch would be a better way to end the day.

So off we went to a lovely little pub in Holywell, where a friend of ours works, for a nice lunch and then on to Crantock for sea kayaking. After carrying our kayaks from the car park to the beach (No small feat in itself) we had a paddle up the river for a little ways to do some basic skills before heading for open water.

This is where I feel my problems began as my Kayak seemed to have a life of it's own and insisted in always pulling to the left which was a little annoying.
It was only when heading down the river towards the sea against the tide that this became an issue as I had to paddle the whole way only using my left arm as that seemed to be the only way to get the thing to go in a straight line.

So out we paddled into the 4ft swells and headed out of the bay to the island. It was great fun and a little hairy in places especially near the rocks. By the time I reached the island (rather a way behind everyone else) my arm had totally gone numb but after a little rest and the guide attaching a drag to the rear of my kayak (which seemed to actually solve the problem) we were ready to head back in.

With the tide.

And the wind.

And the swells, no wait a min, breakers.

The swells that we had traveled out through had now become 5-6ft breakers, This was going to be fun.

Paddling hell for leather I was nicely carried along with the first breaker, relaxed as I felt the swell pull for the next....

I remember looking behind and thinking "hmmmm that's a little bigger than the last, never mind." And going for it....

This is where it all goes into slow motion, as I was lifted onto the wave I saw Helouise on the breaker in front of me (which had grown somewhat being nearer the shore) go over and into the water, closely followed by the guide (we were all right in the surf zone).

Unfortunately this distracted me from my paddling and the wave caught me at it's apex and flipped me. I surfaced, still holding my paddle and managed to grab my kayak by the drag line, I looked around to see what was happening.

Helouise and the guide had managed to right here Kayak and she was heading off to shore, The guide was still in the water but ok so I decided to see how the others were doing and managed to catch Julian's bid for glory, powering down a 6ft breaker, all was looking good right up until he ran out of water....
The nose of his kayak dug into the sandy bottom while the rear, borne by the wave continued on it's course, with Julian somewhere in the middle. Needless to say Julian, Kayak and paddle were separated by rather a large distance.
There was however another brave adventurer, asbarrelingelling down the wave behind tried to ride the tube with very expected results, He did however manage to miss Julian and surfaced a little way off.

At this point I was distracted by a large wave full in my face and a short drag behind my upturned kayak, this did however draw my attention to Edmund sat a few yards away in his Kayak, which was still the right way up.

With Helouise heading towards shore and the mini Lifeboat heading towards Julian and Kim, Edmund and I set about flipping over my kayak and me climbing back in. Unfortunately with me ending up the wrong way around and having to jump back in and start again.
I did however get back in and set about bailing out some of the water only to end up back in again after about 30secs, at which point the lifeboat had deposited Julian and kim on the beach and came to ask if I needed help and I relented, getting a lift to shore with a rather attractive lady lifeguard.

Our guide stayed out and went after the lost kayaks and Edmund paddled supremely towards the shore only failing slightly in his mastery of the sea by capsizing 12ft from the beach.

WHAT A LAUGH!

Well! tired but happy we headed back to Trevina for a slap up meal and a few birthday drinks.

Cheers weezy for organizing it, it was a wicked day.
- posted by J @ 22:48

 
Pttttthhhhhhhh
As rob completley ruined the surprise and hilarity that would have been my second post, Im not going to write it. Instead i will direct you to Edmund for the story of coastering and kayaking.

Instead i will post this:

20 Ways To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity (as sent to me by Amy)

1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.

2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, ask If They Want Fries with that.

4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label it "In".

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.

6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write "For Smuggling Diamonds".

7. Finish All Your sentences with "In Accordance With The Prophecy".

8. Don't use any punctuation.

9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.

11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go".

12. Sing Along At The Opera.

13. Go To A Poetry Recital. And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme?

14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day.

15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In The Mood.

16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.

17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won! I Won!"

18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling "Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!"

19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner, "Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go."

20. And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity ...

Send This E-mail To Someone To Make Them Smile.

I hope that bought a smile to your face.
- posted by J @ 18:22

 
Back part 1.
Hello soil fans, I am back!
A little wired, a little tired but back none the less. What has been happening? Well I'm here to tell.

On Sunday the 9th we received word that Vic's sister had died (found by her brother who also 2 yrs ago found her father as well) and chaos ensued as I was also due to start back at work on the 10th.
Well Vic went off to Cornwall on the Sunday night and returned on the Tuesday, I took most of the week off as Vic had to go down to Cornwall and back again on the Thursday, I had to go to the work on the Friday and we all had to go to Cornwall on the Sunday for the funeral on the Monday.
luckily due to the kindness of Sue and Kevin we were able to stay at Trevina at short notice. The funeral was a nice one and was very well attended by lots of friends and family and it was nice to see how many people had turned up.
Vic stayed with me in Cornwall until the Thursday, as I had previously arranged to be in Cornwall that week anyway to help Kevin start building his barn and for Edmunds birthday at the weekend.
Barn construction went well with only a few minor set backs. The ground which had laid undisturbed for rather a long time proved hard as granite and refused to yield to even the most energetic of pick axe blows, however that and the constant attacks from Horseflys (23 dead in one day) did not deter us and by everyone's arrival on Friday 8 posts were set in and concreted.

Find out what happened on our fantastic Coastering and kayaking day in part 2.
- posted by J @ 22:11